peta · instant, suddenly

What it means

peta (פֶּתַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “instant, suddenly”.

Instant, moment; used to say "suddenly."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. In a moment, without warning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• suddenly ×4
• instant ×3

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Habakkuk×1

• Numbers 6:9

  And if someone dies beside him very suddenly and makes unclean his consecrated head, he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

• Numbers 35:22

  But if suddenly, without enmity, he pushed him, or threw at him any object without lying in wait,

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore suddenly his calamity will come; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Proverbs 29:1

  A man of reproofs who hardens his neck will suddenly be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Isaiah 29:5

  And the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the tyrants like chaff that passes away; and it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

• Isaiah 30:13

  therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

• Habakkuk 2:7

  Will not suddenly rise up those who bite you, and awake those who shake you, and you will be spoil for them?